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Awardees of the 2022 Naji Naaman Literary Prizes


Naji Naaman Literary Prizes 2022 was given to 68 new prizewinners. This is the jubilar 20th picking season of the awards given by the Naji Naaman Foundation for Gratis Culture (FGC).

With 3322 participants in competition, from eighty two countries, writing in several languages and dialects (with new entries of Hausa, Igbo, Quechua and Sambalic), the twentieth picking season of Naji Naaman literary prizes (2022) rewarded 68 new prizewinners:

Merit prizes:

Elezza Mohamed Elwely (Mauritania); Giovanni Nagacci (Croatia); James Tian (China); Lou Fu (Hsu, Shih-Ting) (Taiwan); Subash Singh Parajuli (Nepal).

Creativity prizes:

Abdo Mansour Al-Mahmoudi (Yemen); Abdulla Sarmad Al-Jamil (Iraq); Ahmed Sachit Sharif (Iraq); Aleksandar Ćuković (Montenegro); Al-Husam Mouhieddine (Lebanon); Anton Marku (Kosovo/Austria); Antonia Petrone (USA/Italy); Armel Jovensel Ngamaleu (Cameroon/USA); Beatriz Saavedra Gastélum (Mexico); Borche Panov (North Macedonia); Cha Shanqing (China); Dalip Khetarpal (India); Fernando Salazar Torres (Mexico); Hasan Hasan (Jordan); Jameel Al-Jameel (Iraq); Mohamed Abdul-Hamid Degedy (Egypt); Hubert Paran (France); Ismael Ayouba Kamaye (Niger);

John Fitzgerald (Ireland/USA); Juljana Mehmeti (Albania/Italy); Karima Ilarzeg (Morocco); Lovelyn P. Eyo (Nigeria); Luo Qichao (China); Mallé Barry (Senegal); Mari Callealta Torres (Spain); María Fernanda Del Castillo Sucerquia (Colombia); Nacéra Tolba (Algeria); Neslihan Yalman (Turkey); Obren Ristić (Serbia); Paola Caronni (Italy/Hong Kong); Radovan Vlahović (Serbia); Samia Bouguernout (Algeria); Sarah Lubala (Congo/Ivory Coast/South Africa); Stefan Markovski (North Macedonia); Yorgo Antoun (Lebanon/France); Yu Nong (China); Zoran Pejkovski (North Macedonia);

Out of competition:

Eman Shafie (awarded for the second time, Egypt); Ghalib Ahmad Masri (Syria/UAE). Honor prizes (for complete work): Andreas Weiland (Germany); Claude Luezior (Switzerland); Eden Soriano Trinidad (The Philippines); Georges Colleuil (France); Giuliano Ladolfi (Italy); Harinder Cheema (India); Harvey Lee Hix (USA); Konstantinos Bouras (Greece); Lisa Carduci (Quebec, Canada); Magdalena Ball (Australia); Mari Kashiwagi (Japan/Germany); María Del Carmen Aranda (Spain); María Lucília F. Meleiro (Portugal);

Martine Gilhard (France); Miroslav Todorović (Serbia); Mousa Rahoum Abbas (Syria/Sweden); Slodoban Ristović (Bosnia and Herzegovina); Stefan Vida Marinescu (Romania); Tomislav Đjokić (Serbia); Zhanlin Zhou (China); and out of competition: Ahmed Bahichaoui (awarded for the second time, Morocco); Hussain Rahim (awarded for the second time/posthumous, Iraq); Mamdouh Rizk (Egypt); Wafaa El Beih (Egypt).

During next September, laureates will find their chosen texts printed (integrally or in part) in the prizes' yearbook within the free of charge literary series published by Naji Naaman Foundation for Gratis Culture (FGC), and shall receive an appropriate attestation granting them the honorary title of member of Maison Naaman pour la Culture. Released in 2002, Naji Naaman literary prizes are awarded to authors of the most emancipated literary works in content and style, aiming to revive and develop human values.


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